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We now have a listserv which will serve as a "Virtual Town Hall" so we can share information with each other!
Come join the fun!
Click the envelope above to send an eMail to join our NEW Google Group
or send an eMail to:
growlocalcolorado+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Questions?
Email: Dana@GrowLocalColorado.org
Harvest from Governor's Mansion
by St John's Episcopal Church volunteers
by St John's Episcopal Church volunteers
PRODUCE FOR PANTRIES
ADDRESSES INCREASING HUNGER
IN DENVER METRO AREA
Organizations Come Together to Increase Availability of Garden Grown Produce in Local Food Pantries
In response to the growing number of people visiting Denver area food pantries and to increase access to healthy and fresh produce for all, area organizations have come together to create Produce for Pantries. A project of Cooking Matters, Grow Local Colorado, Denver Urban Gardens, Slow Food Denver, Plant a Row for The Hungry, Livewell Colorado, Food Bank of the Rockies, Metro CareRing, Yardharvest, and St. John's Cathedral, Produce for Pantries connects food pantries with school gardens, community gardens, and home gardens in their neighborhoods to provide locally grown and healthy food and nutrition education to those in need. Through Yardharvest, food pantries will also be connected with fruit gleaned from residents' trees who have an excess they would like to donate.
A total of twenty-three Denver area pantries are involved as pilot sites for 2012. Those pantries are being connected with school gardens via Slow Food Denver, community gardens via Denver Urban Gardens, and home gardens via a media campaign. As well as receiving fresh produce, food pantries will be provided with easy, nutritious bilingual recipes to accompany the produce, information on safe food handling and storage for the fresh produce, as well as on-site cooking classes.
"In the world's wealthiest nation no child should go hungry, but one in five children in America struggles with hunger" says Cooking Matters' Megan Bradley, "and Produce for Pantries recognizes that one of the main hurdles to healthy eating can be access to local nutritious foods. You can't get more local than food grown in the neighborhood of food pantries."
Produce for Pantries "connects the dots" by bringing together youth growing produce in school gardens, residents growing in community gardens, and citizens growing vegetables in home gardens to help nourish their neighbors in need, thereby strengthening and enriching Denver's diverse neighborhoods. Residents are encouraged to email produceforpantries@gmail.com to connect with their nearest participating food pantry, and to register their fruit trees online at www.yardharvest.org if they would like to donate their excess fruit to nearby food pantries.
In response to the growing number of people visiting Denver area food pantries and to increase access to healthy and fresh produce for all, area organizations have come together to create Produce for Pantries. A project of Cooking Matters, Grow Local Colorado, Denver Urban Gardens, Slow Food Denver, Plant a Row for The Hungry, Livewell Colorado, Food Bank of the Rockies, Metro CareRing, Yardharvest, and St. John's Cathedral, Produce for Pantries connects food pantries with school gardens, community gardens, and home gardens in their neighborhoods to provide locally grown and healthy food and nutrition education to those in need. Through Yardharvest, food pantries will also be connected with fruit gleaned from residents' trees who have an excess they would like to donate.
A total of twenty-three Denver area pantries are involved as pilot sites for 2012. Those pantries are being connected with school gardens via Slow Food Denver, community gardens via Denver Urban Gardens, and home gardens via a media campaign. As well as receiving fresh produce, food pantries will be provided with easy, nutritious bilingual recipes to accompany the produce, information on safe food handling and storage for the fresh produce, as well as on-site cooking classes.
"In the world's wealthiest nation no child should go hungry, but one in five children in America struggles with hunger" says Cooking Matters' Megan Bradley, "and Produce for Pantries recognizes that one of the main hurdles to healthy eating can be access to local nutritious foods. You can't get more local than food grown in the neighborhood of food pantries."
Produce for Pantries "connects the dots" by bringing together youth growing produce in school gardens, residents growing in community gardens, and citizens growing vegetables in home gardens to help nourish their neighbors in need, thereby strengthening and enriching Denver's diverse neighborhoods. Residents are encouraged to email produceforpantries@gmail.com to connect with their nearest participating food pantry, and to register their fruit trees online at www.yardharvest.org if they would like to donate their excess fruit to nearby food pantries.
We wanted to say, "Thank you", to
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
for all their generosity
so we descended on their store in Cherry Creek Mall.
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
for all their generosity
so we descended on their store in Cherry Creek Mall.
About UsGrow Local Colorado was founded in 2009 by representatives of Transition Denver, Mile High Business Alliance, and Denver Botanic Gardens. Since then community partnerships formed with organizations such as 910Arts, Denver Urban Gardens, Slow Food Denver, Sustainable Food Denver, The GrowHaus, Beanstalk Foundation, Feed Denver, Volunteers of Outdoor Colorado, among many others.
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